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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Land in Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 14th April, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 11 o’clock a.m. on Monday, 24th May, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 26th May, 1937, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Taumarunui County.—Ongarue Survey District.

(Exempt from payment of rent for two years.*)

SECTION 7, Block X: Area, 391 acres 3 roods 27 perches. Capital value, £295; half-yearly rent, £5 18s.

Weighted with £600 for improvements, comprising dwelling of four rooms and bathroom, wool-shed, cow-shed and yards, clearing and grassing, subdivisional fencing, half-share in boundary-fencing, road-boundary fencing. This sum is payable in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £25, the balance of £575 as follows:—

(a) The sum of £400 to remain on mortgage to the Lands and Survey Department payable in the case of a New Zealand discharged soldier over a period of 36½ years by instalments of principal and interest (5 per cent.) combined amounting to £1½ each half-year, and in the case of a civilian over a period of 34½ years by instalments of principal and interest (5½ per cent.) combined amounting to £13 each half-year; exempt from interest payments for a period of two years.

(b) The sum of £175 to remain on mortgage to the former lessee of the property payable over a period of 15 years by means of half-yearly instalments of principal and interest (5 per cent.) combined amounting to £8 7s. 3d. each half-year, with exemption from interest payments for a period of two years.

A grazing property situated on Akauaka Road nine miles from Waimiha Post-office, the School, Railway-station, and cream-collection depot; access by metalled road. Land is easy undulating in front to steep and broken at the back. Approximately 122 acres in worn-out pasture, 4 acres fallow, 266 acres in natural state of standing bush. Ragwort requires immediate attention.

After payment of the required deposit no rent and no mortgage-interest payments will be charged for a period of two years.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

K. M. GRAHAM,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/20084; D.O. D.S. 1045.)

Land in Marlborough Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 14th April, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby give that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, up to noon on Tuesday, 11th May, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Thursday, 13th May, 1937, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease and mortgage fees, and deposit in reduction of improvement loading.

NOTE.—This land is offered in terms of section 153 of the Land Act, 1924, which provides that no right to any mineral under the surface shall pertain to the lessee, whose rights shall be to the surface soil only.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—SECOND-CLASS LAND.

Marlborough County.—Linkwater Survey District.—
Marlborough Mining District.

PART Section 2, Block IX: Area, 941 acres 0 roods 20 perches. Capital value, £470; half-yearly rent, £18 16s. Weighted with £405 for improvements, consisting of fencing and clearing and grassing. This sum may be paid in cash, or, after payment of a deposit of £5, the balance (£400) may remain on mortgage to the State Advances Corporation of New Zealand payable over a period of twenty years by means of quarterly instalments of principal and interest combined with interest at the rate ruling as at date of selection, subject to a rebate of ½ per cent. for payment of the instalments on or before the fourteenth day after the due dates thereof. Costs for the completion of the mortgage, amounting to £3 1s., are payable by the successful applicant.

This property is situated on the north shore of Mahakipawa Arm, Pelorus Sound, about four miles from Havelock. The surface rises rather abruptly from the water’s edge to a height of 1,550 ft., the moderately easy ridges being at the western end. Approximately 700 acres have at one time been felled and grassed but have now practically all reverted to fern with some gorse and blackberry at the eastern end, the balance—240 acres (approximately)—is in bush including some fair rimu and bush. In its present state the property should carry about 250 sheep but is capable of considerable improvement.

Full particulars may be obtained from the undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 22/4307; D.O. L.P. 585 and III/124.)

Settlement Land in Marlborough Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Blenheim, 14th April, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned property will be offered for sale by public auction for cash or on deferred payments at the District Lands and Survey Office, Blenheim, on Wednesday, 26th May, 1937, at 2.30 o’clock p.m., under the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1925.

SCHEDULE.

MARLBOROUGH LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN (SETTLEMENT) LAND.

Awatere County.—Town of Ward.—Flaxbourne Settlement.

The sections comprise first-class level land situated on or adjacent to the Main South Highway in the centre of an ideal farming district, approximately three-quarters of a mile from the Ward Post-office and Railway-station and less than half a mile from the Ward School; ideally suited for business or residential sites.

Any further information required may be obtained from the undersigned.

G. I. MARTIN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(L. and S. 9/3111.)